BIB_ID
413396
Accession number
MA 205.12
Creator
Davenport, Samuel, 1783-1867, etcher.
Published
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [18--]
Credit line
Purchased, 1896.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 233 x 159 mm ; sheet: 259 x 181 mm
Notes
Title from lettering within image; signatures of the artist and printmaker at lower left and right have been partially effaced or burnished out.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
Summary
Circular portrait of Samuel Johnson, half length, directed and looking 3/4 to the left; in oval oakleaf frame surmounting an urn, decorated with an oval mythological image of a man clubbing a multi-headed dragon or hydra.
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